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| Author | : Jeter A. Isely |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 956 |
| Release | : 2016-08-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1787200957 |
“Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare....Relentlessly accurate and impartial.”—N.Y. Times Originally published in 1951, this book is a widely regarded classic on US Marine amphibious doctrine and operations employed in the Pacific during the Second World War. The authors describe in detail the development of the theoretical aspects of amphibious assault in the inter-war period, but devote the vast majority of the narrative to the various landings and their core strategies, using Japanese documents “to sketch in the background of military decisions made by the enemy.” A must for those who wish to understand the American war against Japan.
| Author | : Theodore L Gatchel |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2013-07-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1612514308 |
Conventional military wisdom holds that the amphibious assault against a defended beach is the most difficult of all military operations--yet modern amphibious landings have been almost universally successful. This apparent contradiction is fully explored in this first look at 20th-century amphibious warfare from the perspective of the defender. The author, Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.), examines amphibious operations from Gallipoli to the Falkland Islands to determine why the defenders were unable to prevent the attackers from landing or to throw them back into the sea after they had fought their way ashore. He places the reader in the defenders' shoes as such epic battles as Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Inchon are planned and fought, and then uses these cases to explain why the defenders were unable to successfully defend against enemy landings. A practitioner, teacher, and student of amphibious warfare, Colonel Gatchel follows those explanations with speculations on how a defender today might try to stop a landing and on the implications of such actions for future amphibious operations.
| Author | : Ian Speller |
| Publisher | : Amber Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2014-06-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782741739 |
Highly illustrated, Amphibious Warfare takes the reader through the different stages of an amphibious campaign chapter by chapter, illustrating each with case studies from the last 100 years.
| Author | : Blythe Bartlett |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 666 |
| Release | : 2015-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1612515754 |
This collection of 51 essays provides a history of amphibious landings that include European, Asian, and American operations. It describes in detail some of history's most significant amphibious assaults, as well as planned attacks that were never carried out.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2001-09-19 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0309170559 |
Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, and forced the alteration of strategic and tactical plans. The threat posed by sea mines continues, and is increasing, in today's world of inexpensive advanced electronics, nanotechnology, and multiple potential enemies, some of which are difficult to identify. This report assesses the Department of the Navy's capabilities for conducting naval mining and countermining sea operations.
| Author | : Michael G. Walling |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 2017-04-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472814401 |
Bloodstained Sands tells the untold story of the men who stormed beaches around the globe during World War II, from the Sword and Juno Beaches on D-Day to the sands of Iwo Jima. For the men who served in America's Amphibious Forces during World War II, the conflict was an unceasing series of D-Days. They were responsible for putting men ashore in more than 200 landings throughout the conflict, most against well-entrenched enemy positions. Bloodstained Sands: US Amphibious Operations in World War II tells the story of these forgotten men for the first time, tracing their operational history from Guadalcanal to Casablanca, Sicily, Normandy, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa. The men's stories are told in their own voices, with fascinating accounts from Underwater Demolition Teams, Attack Transport crews and many other unsung heroes of World War II. First-hand interviews, entries from personal diaries and Action Reports create a unique history, perfectly complemented by historic illustrations and detailed maps. These are timeless tales of determination, sacrifice, and triumph of the human spirit - tales of US Amphibious Forces that for too long have gone forgotten and untold.
| Author | : Daniel E. Barbey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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| Author | : Trim |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 570 |
| Release | : 2005-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047417291 |
This volume reconceptualizes amphibious warfare and also fills an important gap in its historiography, examining how it was conceived, practised and employed, from the Crusades, through the first wave of European exploration and colonization, the Price Revolution and the European wars of religion, up to the early Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of a new wave of imperialism. Essays examine issues related to strategy, operational art, tactics, logistics and military technology, but also consider commerce and culture. They reveal that amphibious warfare was often waged for economic reasons and was the quintessential warfare of European imperialism, for sea power was required to deliver and sustain land power. The volume is lavishly illustrated with 30 plates and twelve maps. Contributors: Matthew Bennett; Louis Sicking; Malyn Newitt; Jan Glete; John F. Guilmartin; R. B. Wernham; Mark Charles Fissel; Guy Rowlands; John Stapleton; David J.B. Trim.
| Author | : Joseph Balkoski |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780811733779 |
The attack on Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion was one of the most successful military operations ever undertaken, especially bearing in mind the complexities of such a massive air & seaborne assault. Joseph Balkoski describes the unfolding drama.
| Author | : Michael Clapp |
| Publisher | : Grub Street Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2012-08-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178159631X |
A British Naval commander’s eyewitness account of the 1982 war in the South Atlantic. Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable candor, some of the problems met in a Navy racing to war and finding it necessary to recreate a largely abandoned operational technique in a somewhat ad hoc fashion. During the time it took to “go south,” some sense of order was imposed and a not very well defined command structure evolved, this was not done without generating a certain amount of friction. He tells of why San Carlos Water was chosen for the assault and the subsequent inshore operations. Michael Clapp and his small staff made their stand and can claim a major role in the defeat of the Argentine Air and Land Forces.
